There’s something undeniably magical about spotting the first firefly of the season, that surprising twinkle of light peeking through the dusk. The innocence and wonder of that moment goes a ...

Readers share their Halloween candy stories. First, here's the best one: Dear, Greg: It's not 3 feet long, but there is a Pixy Stix in the box of retro candy we'll send you for sending in your ...

Ronald Clark O’Brien, known as "The Candyman," forever changed Halloween when his eight-year-old son, Timothy, died after consuming a poisoned pixie stick. What began as a rainy Halloween night in ...

Ronald Clark O'Bryan earned his confectionery name most distastefully: He murdered his 8-year-old son Halloween night with a cyanide-laced Pixy Stix to collect on a $20,000 insurance policy. The ...

Pixy Stix, the powdered candy packaged in a straw, were also sold in the 50s, according to NPR. NATIONAL JUNK FOOD DAY 2022: SEE WHICH SNACK CAME OUT THE DECADE YOU WERE BORN. 1960s.

O’Bryan had reportedly given poisoned pixie sticks to his daughter and three other neighborhood children in Deer Park, but the candy had not been consumed. O’Bryan was found guilty of capital ...

I'll never forget Halloween when I was seven years old. After a night of picking up the goods going door-to-door in the neighborhood, I immediately dump my new stash out on the living room floor. A ...

By the 1950s, his Sunline candy company had paired the pouches of powder with a spoon or candy stick in Lik-M-Aid (now Fun Dip) and repackaged it in straws as Pixy Stix. The latter were sold ...

It's been more than 40 years since Halloween took a real-life horror turn, with poisoned candy that killed an 8-year-old boy. ... he had the pixie sticks shoved up the sleeves of his raincoat." ...

Every Saturday, the Honey Tree sets up shop at the Huebner Oaks Farmers Market, then on Sunday rolls over to the Alamo Heights Farmers Market. And when you find the booth, manned by owner Joe ...